The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR. Date: December 5, 1936 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 5 📅 Events on this day in 1936 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania. Date: December 5, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 5 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army. Date: December 5, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 5 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow. Date: December 5, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 5 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)
Flight 19, a group of TBF Avengers, disappears in the Bermuda Triangle. Date: December 5, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 5 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On This Day (Today)
Beginning of the Great Smog in London. A cold fog combines with air pollution and brings the city to a standstill for four days. Later, a Ministry of Health report estimates 4,000 fatalities as a result of it. Date: December 5, 1952 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 5 📅 Events…
The Civil Rights Movement: the Montgomery bus boycott begins, led by E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks. Date: December 5, 1955 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 5 📅 Events on this day in 1955 📅 On This Day (Today)
The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO. Date: December 5, 1955 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 5 📅 Events on this day in 1955 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.) Date: December 5, 1958 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 5 📅 Events on this day in 1958 📅 On This Day (Today)
Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh. Date: December 5, 1958 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 5 📅 Events on this day in 1958 📅 On This Day (Today)